Shawshank redemption is a movie about a wrongfully imprisoned man named Andy Dufresne. While in Shawshank Andy makes a variety of friends and even becomes close with some of the guards. There is a large variety of personalities in prison. While watching this movie and putting a focus on the emotional intelligence I learned that there was new view on the characters. Andy Dufesne was a successful banker who ended up in prison after being charged with the murder of his lover. Although Andy did not commit the crime he spent over 20 years in prison. During his stay Andy made some friends and some enemy’s. He would watch quietly watch people and knew what he had to do to make it through his time there. Andy eventually managed to tunnel his way out …show more content…
Andy seemed to be a quiet man throughout the whole film. He really seemed to keep to himself. I assume this was partially because that is just what his personality is like, but also because he was not where he belonged. Although he seemed shy he still found importance in making friends inside. Andy was extremely self-aware, which means that he knows himself for who he really is (Bradberry & Greaves, 2009). On his first night in prison and was quiet and calm. Under the circumstances you would think that he would be an emotional mess, yet Andy held himself together and didn't shed a single tear. Self-management is also very important and Andy was able to do this well. The book states that having good self-management is being able to look at a situation and look at the outcomes before you head in the wrong direction (Bradberry & Greaves, 2009). Throughout the movie Andy was put in plenty of tough situations. Throughout those situations he didn’t back down but instead acted tough and powered through them. He knew when he could speak up to the guards but also knew when it was important for him to remain silent. He would sometimes stretch his limits but he always knows when it’s too
Writing 2 Aidyn Ogilvy: Writing Portfolio I am going to write about a scene from the movie The Shawshank Redemption. I will be using figurative language to put the audience in the shoes of the main lead character Andy Dufrense. My audience will be people who like Stephen King. The scene will be when he escapes the prison. The lights have been turned out.
He could have given up at any moment, but instead he decided to go for it finally coming out on the other side. The hole in the wall was no easy task, but I would be willing to bet it was more fun than crawling through a 50 inch diameter tube full of shit for about half a mile. Laying in a pile of poop would be enough to make some people call it quits, but instead of giving up, Andy crawled through the poo filled tunnel, making it to freedom. Never once did he give up hope. Luke on the other hand didn’t literally have to crawl through shit, but did go through some shit of his own. After being put in the hot box for a week due to finding out that his mother died, not for doing anything wrong, but for fear he might try something, he does try something, he try’s to run for the first time. Almost successful, the dogs end up sniffing him out, and he receives a beating due to, “a failure to communicate.” Being his first escape attempt they gave him minimal punishment. Time in the box, and a nice set of chains for his ankles. He then continues to try and run again, managing to remove his chain, he once again gets caught, this time being forced to do unnecessary labor, and then immediately receiving a deadly beating. Having everyone, including the guards, thinking that he had given up hope, he attempts to escape one last time by stealing a truck, ultimately resulting in his death. This shows how much hope Luke had, being as he died fighting for his own
The creators of this movie used several effective, and often subtle, methods to illustrate the hope found in Andy and his surroundings. Andy was always portrayed as a clean-cut and well-groomed prisoner with his shirt always buttoned and his hair always combed. This self-respect was in great contrast to the other prisoners who were portrayed as dirty, stereotypical prisoners. The common prisoners also had vocabularies and grammar that were far inferior to Andy’s. The distinctions between Andy and the common prisoners showed that Andy was different, those differences were that he had hope.
Outside in the exercise yard a loud siren wails. The incarcerated men all gather together to get a look at the new prisoners that have just arrived. Reds' first impression of Andy Dufresne was, " That one looks like a stiff breeze could knock him over. That tall drink of water with a silver spoon up his ass." Little did Red know, at this time, but the two men would develop a strong bond. The mutual friendship Red and Andy would cultivate, caused them both to grow an inner strength which helped them deal with prison life.
Consequently, Andy’s soul withered further into hopelessness as each and every person who came to his rescue, turned their backs on him. Through a final desperate ambition, Andy broke free of the bonds that were pinning him down: “If it had not been for the jacket, he wouldn’t have been stabbed. The knife had not been plunged in hatred of Andy. The knife only hated the purple jacket. The jacket was a stupid, meaningless thing that was robbing him of his life. He lay struggling with the shiny wet jacket. Pain ripped fire across his body whenever he moved. But he squirmed and fought and twisted until one arm was free and the other. He rolled away from the jacket and layed quite still, breathing heavily, listening to the sound of his breathing and the sounds of rain and thinking: Rain is sweet, I’m Andy”. In these moments, Andy finally overcame his situation, only in a way not expected by most. Such depicted scenes are prime examples of human nature at it’s worst, as well as the horrors that lay within us. However, these events, although previously incomprehensible by his limited subconscious, led to a gradual enlightenment of the mind and heart. Furthermore, the experiences taught him
In 1947, Andy Dufresne, a banker in Maine, is sentenced for killing his wife and her lover. He is given two lifelong incarcerations and sent to the famously brutal Shawshank Prison. Andy always claimed that he was innocent, but his personality led a lot of people to doubt him.
This venture of his takes years to complete and loads of commitment. One reason why it may help him maintain his self-respect is because he has a project to put forth effort and determination into. Andy is so committed and determined to get the library, that he writes one letter a week to the state senate for funds. Once the senate sends him two hundred dollars to shut him up, he begins writing two letters a week until he is granted what he wants. From beginning to end, Andy turns a one room library into an expansive three-room library. Determination like this is typically only put forth by a person if they are truly passionate about something. Andy’s determination is made visible during his second interview with the warden. Andy is arguing with the warden and the warden threatens him by saying, “‘And while you’re in, think about this: if anything that’s been going on should stop, the library goes. I will make it my personal business to see that it goes back to what it was before you came here’” (King 71). Here, Andy’s determination is put on display by him simply not acting. He chooses to restrain himself and keep everything that he has worked so hard for in the prison. This determination and passion probably takes Andy’s mind off his situation and gives him a purpose to continue to live, thereby boosting his self-respect. Another reason that the library helps Andy maintain his
The movie Shawshank Redemption depicts the story of Andy Dufresne, who is an innocent man that is sentenced to life in prison. At Shawshank, both Andy and the viewers, witness typical prison subculture.
Andy is the stereotype of a jock. He is at the formal operational stage. Andy's dad pushes him to be the best. He has to win and that's the only option. He is an authoritarian parent who is controlling. At the beginning of the movie Andy is at the identity vs. role confusion. He has no personal identity because of the control his dad has over his life. This leads to him losing control.
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1997 drama film which takes place in a prison during the late 40’s. The film focuses on Andy Dufresne’s transition from his old life as banker to becoming a prisoner in the Shawshank penitentiary. The life shown in the Shawshank penitentiary is similar to that of normal society such as norms, economic transactions, and functions both prisoners and the officials. The roles the prisoners and officials take shows that Functionalism does not only take place in a normal functioning society, it also takes place in a total institution such as the prison shown in the film.
Personal identity is the most important aspect of how individuals grow and it is not a simple wave of the wand to erase the past and start a brand new beginning. Andy is judged due to the jacket. Without it, he is a different person. Andy wanted to be himself, but the label of being a Royal stopped others from knowing who he truly was. Even Hunter helps readers see Andy as a real person by describing his hopes and dreams - hopes and dreams that will never come
One morning when the guards are checking the cells, they discover that Andy is not in his cell. The warden throws rocks out of anger and throws one at the poster of a female Andy had taped on his cell wall. The rock goes straight through once they take down the poster, they see a hole in the wall. Andy had been digging this hole for twenty long years and used it to escape the prison. In the film, there is a scene of Andy in which he stands in the rain with his hands in the air as a free man. He takes in the rain on the other side of the prison and we see the happiness he feels knowing his plan worked. This scene shows us the success and accomplishment he feels knowing that due to his hard work over the years, he is now a free man. Once Andy escapes, he goes to Zihuatanejo, Mexico to start a new life, like he had told Red earlier on in the film. Once Red is granted parole, he is sent to the same hotel as Brooks and works at the same grocery store as well. The difference between Brooks and Red is that Red has a reason to keep going once he is out of the prison. He states “Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy.” (). As he sits in his hotel room. This shows that Andy left a lasting impression on Red and also instilled hope in him to not give up like Brooks had. In the prison, Red was a man who had nothing to look forward to and gave up on ever getting parole but after being exposed to Andy and his beliefs, Red changed his thinking. When Red goes to finally meet Andy in Mexico, he says “I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams … I hope. “ (). This shows that someone who had said that hope is a dangerous thing now hopes for so many things, all because of Andy and his
The film stars Tim Robbins as Andrew 'Andy' Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding. The film portrays Andy spending nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison, a surreal house of correction in Maine and his friendship with Red, a fellow inmate, which gradually develops over the years. Consequently the three reasons that the director wanted to produce this movie are to reveal hope, despair and integrity. Red describes the reasons eloquently: “All I know for sure is that Andy Dufresne wasn’t much like me or anyone else I ever knew. . . . It was a kind of inner light he carried around with him.”
People are scared to help him because they think once they tell the cops the guardians will find them and hurt them. "He‟s a Royal. We help him, and the Guardians will be after us." Whenever one of the strangers think about helping Andy they see the royals then rethink about actually helping him. Another reason the strangers wouldn't want to help him is because they think the guardians will found out and be after them. The couple doesn't want to get involved with the gangs because they think they might get killed getting involve with the gangs. Andy tried his hardest not to be remembered as a royal but as soon as the cop seen Andy's royal jacket the cop immediately wrote this. "He took out his black pad. He opened it to a blank page. “! Royal,” he said." Even though Laura was telling the cop Andy's name it seemed like he was just ignoring her and writing down royal. Andy tried with all his effort to not to remembered as just a royal. Andy cared about this so much he tried to take his royal jacket off while he was bleeding so this caused him a lot of pain from doing
It may appear normal for this to happen, but the audience later discovers that the prison authorities abused the power which they have, to benefit themselves. During Andy’s first few years, it became known that he was abused by a group of prisoners, known as ‘The Sisters’. Captain Hadley and several other guards, had beaten up the leader of ‘The Sisters’, Boggs, after discovering how they abused Andy on a regular basis. The audience is shown how the prison authorities are willing to abuse their power to whatever extent, as long as it benefits and helps them in some way or another. As the narrator was Red, the audience trusts him in building the character background for the prison authorities.